715: How to Stand Up for Yourself, with Sunita Sah

We often think of defiance as a snap judgment, yet it's so much more nuanced and purposeful than it often appears. In this episode, The Common Patterns of Defiance and How We Can All Do a Better Job of Standing Up for Ourselves. This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 715. Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. Greetings to you from Orange County, California.

This is Coaching for Leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stehoviak. Leaders aren't born, they're made. And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations. We have all been in many situations where we comply with what's happening around us, and that is in many ways the cornerstone of our organizations and our society for many good reasons. And sometimes it's really not the right answer, sometimes avoiding compliance.

is the path forward, especially at the right time. Today I'm so glad to welcome a guest who has really dedicated her work to looking at how we think about compliance, defiance, and how we can make sure we're heading down the path we want to head down at the right time. I'm so pleased to introduce Sunita Sa. She is an award-winning professor at Cornell University and an expert in organizational psychology, leading groundbreaking research on influence, authority, compliance, and defiance. A trained physician, her research and analyses have been widely published in leading academic journals and media entities, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Harvard Business Review, and Scientific American.

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